$3.5 Million Tequila Goes to Auction

Have you ever bought a beverage – say, beer or wine – just because you liked the bottle it came in? If you have and, if you have an extra $3.5 million laying around, we might have just the thing for you.

Hacienda La Capilla, based in the Mexican state of Jalisco – better known as the center of the universe to tequila enthusiasts – is selling a platinum-plated, diamond-encrusted bottle for which they’re asking a base price of $3.5 million. The platinum alone weighs in at 5 pound and the diamonds, more than 4,000 of them, come in at 328 carats, according to MSNBC. Oh, and there's 1.3 liters of 7-year-old tequila in there, too.

The bottle is expected to sell at auction in London after which it embarks on a tour of Europe and the Middle East because, when you’re a $3.5 million bottle of platinum-coated tequila, you can afford to do these things.

if the auction is successful, it will beat the previous record for the wold’s most expensive tequila, $225,000, which was also set by Hacienda La Capilla in 1996. There’s no mention of a worm at the bottom of this bottle but we’re assuming if you can afford this stuff, you can probably hire someone to eat it for you.

So, what's the most you've ever paid for a bottle of the good stuff? Was the hangover worth it?

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